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23 Bible Verses About the Heart

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Summary

  • Strong’s defines the Hebrew lev as “inner man, mind, will, heart”, and Romans 10:10 makes the heart the place where a person believes.
  • In Matthew 15:18-19 Jesus says evil thoughts, murder, adultery and slander come “out of the heart”, in answer to a dispute about eating with unwashed hands.
  • The Lord told Samuel “the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7) as Samuel looked at Eliab, one of Jesse’s sons.
  • Psalm 51:10 uses bara, the verb Genesis 1:1 uses for God creating the heavens and the earth.
  • Ezekiel 36:26 promises a heart of flesh in place of a heart of stone, followed by God’s Spirit moving the people to keep his laws.

In the Bible, the heart is the inner person, where people think, choose, trust and love. Proverbs 4:23 calls it the source of everything a person does, and Jeremiah 17:9 calls it deceitful above all things. Psalm 51:10 asks God for a pure heart, and Ezekiel 36:26 promises a heart of flesh in place of a heart of stone. Strong’s defines the Hebrew word lev as “inner man, mind, will, heart”, and the NASB sometimes translates the Greek kardia as…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 3820, לֵב (lev): inner man, mind, will, heart. biblehub.com/hebrew/3820

Strong’s Greek 2588, καρδία (kardia): heart; the NASB also translates it “mind”. biblehub.com/greek/2588

Strong’s Hebrew 1254, בָּרָא (bara): create, shape, form; used in Genesis 1:1 and Psalm 51:10. biblehub.com/hebrew/1254

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